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Gen. Amherst was first in the field en route for Ticonderoga, which the enemy abandoned on his approach, and retreated to Crown Point, which they also evacuated in a very few days. Once in possession of these important posts, the general took active measures for the building of a fleet on Lake Champlain, to oppose that of the French at that point. Meanwhile Ticonderoga was repaired, and a strong fort erected at Crown Point.
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While Amherst was thus employed, Prideaux had set siege to the fort at Niagara, where he was killed : but his place was ably filled by sir William Johnson, who in a sharp and protracted encounter completely routed the enemy. Three important posts were now gained, but Quebec, the heart of the French dominion, was still untouched, and to its reduc- tion every effort of combined skill, sagacity, and numbers was turned.
On the 26th of June, a splendid British fleet, with 8,000 picked troops, under Wolfe, arrived before the precipitous and apparently im- pregnable cliffs of Quebec. On those battle-crowned summits Montealm commanded, and though feeble in numbers, he was, as usual, cool, wary, and intrepid : and his chief strength was the nature of his position. Such were the peculiar difficulties and obstacles to be overcome, that, in spite of repeated but unsuccessful attempts and the utmost sagacity and energy, it was not until the 15th of September, that any full assault could be made. On that night, in silence and darkness, the perilous ascent was made, and at daybreak Wolfe and his army stood in battle array upon the Plains of Abraham, and the next day Quebec was in their hands.
Among the loose manuscripts of the town is the following subscrip- tion paper. circulated among the members of the First trainband in Windsor, under command of Captain Nathaniel Hayden : 1
" Windsor, 13th of April, 1759.
"Whereas ye Providence of God Binds a Necessity upon us to exert ourselves to ye utmost of our Power in se Present warr and a number of our Young men called to enter His Majesty's service this Currant year, and altho' y+ Assembly have done consid- erable to incourage men to enlist freely into said service. it is thought advisable that since a number of our friends must go, and ye service attended with much hardship as to require incouragements, that a further incouragement be given by ye subscribers to inconrage men in ye said 1st Company in Windsor to enlist into said service, & it is lloped & Expected & Requested y'all within ye limits of ye said 1st Company. whether in ye [Train-] Band or out of se [Train-] Band, give their incouragement."
This was subscribed to by forty-six influential men of Windsor, on condition that the sons and servants of such subscribers should be exempt from impressment. The amount subscribed. $54 178., was to be divided among the enlisted and impressed men. The state requisition was for sixteen men. On the back of the document was the following endorsement :
Singers that Listed.
" ROGER ENO. JOHN GRANT. JOSEPH MARVIN.
Singers Prest. JOEL PALMER, NOAH BARBER. JOSEPH YOUNGS,
1 Mr. J. Il. HAYDEN doubts if Nathaniel Hayden was Captain of the Windsor Train- band at this time, since he was then but 21 years old; and says that his father, " Ensign " Nathaniel, was then 50 years old, yet may have been in command at that particular time through lack of superior officers. Our own remembrance is that the original docu- ment, which we copied in our first edition, contained the name of Capt. Nathaniel. VOL. I .- 33
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JOHN ALFORD.
DANIEL FILLEY.
MOSES BARBER. JEREMIAH ALFORD, Jr ..
EBENEZER LOOMIS,
Sgt. PHINEAS DRAKE.
JOHN ALLYN, Jr.,
U'RIAN PEES[E],
SAM ENO, Jr.,
JOHN JAPHETH [colored]."
AUGUSTIN HAYDEN of (Hayden's ) Windsor, born 1740, though only 18 years old at this time, enlisted under this call. His journal ( which be kept during the campaign of 1758-59, and which is now in possession of Mr. J. H. Ilayden ) opens thus, on the day after: "April 14. 1759. Then I. Augustin Hayden, Listed into his Majestie's service." June the 8th he " set away from home to Hartford ; " on the 9th he "set away from Farmington;" the next day from Harwinton; thence through Goshen, Cornwall, Canaan, Sheffield, Spencertown, the " Pattrone Land," etc., and " Centerhook [Kinderhook ]. The 18th day, from K. to Green- bush and then we joined the regiment " -Col. Lyman's. Evidently he was one of a squad which overtook the regiment at Greenbush. Their destination was Lake George and the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, which failed : but the young man saw some pretty rough service -all faithfully recorded in his journal. He reached home again 12 Nov., 1758, and records that he received his " winter's pay, which was £8. 2. 0: and to get a coat, €1. 15. 0: and my first month's wages which was £1. 16. 0." The taste of war which he had in this campaign seems not to have satis- fied his appetite, for he served (and kept a minute daily journal ) through the campaign of 1759.
SAMUEL LATTIMORE also appears on bills in this campaign.
The year 1760 opened with an attempt by the French to retake Quehee, which was for a while averted by the vigilance of the general in command. On the 26th of April, however, the enemy invested the city. and the British commander, foolishly preferring to risk a battle rather than endure a siege, found himself overmatched and obliged to retire within the walls with a heavy loss. The French, flushed with this sue- eess, set actively to work to capture the town, which was only saved by the opportune arrival of a large British fleet.
Montreal, also, had been invested by three large English armies under Lord Amherst and Generals Haviland and Murray. It shortly after capitulated on honorable terms, and with it all the French posses- sions in Canada passed into the power of Great Britain.
The Windsor men in this campaign were mostly in service in this siege.
By the kindness of Mr. Elihu Marshall of Poquonoek, Windsor, we are enabled to present our readers with the following digest of two mus-
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ter-rolls of General Lyman's regiment in this campaign. One of these. evidently an orderly-sergeant's roll, was entitled :
" A Muster roll of Gent Lyman's Company " in " Camp at Mon- treal. Sept, +2, 1760."
This we have copied, with sundry additions and items gleaned from the other document, which is "A List of General Phinehas Lyman's Company of all ye enlisted men, with the time of their several enlist- ments, and the time of the death of those that are dead, and that are deserted, or never joined; and the time of their receiving the King's bounty." This is drawn up in a formal and handsome manner, on a large sheet of paper, and endorsed on the back " R[oyal] A[rtillery ], Nº 42."
General Lyman was a distinguished officer in Connecticut, and a native of Suffield. His company, as will be seen, was made up princi- pally of Suffield and Windsor men : and. indeed, so intimate has been the connection between the two towns, that we have not been able to locate many of the names which have become so common in each place. We have therefore left that to the more abundant leisure and industry of descendants and genealogical investigators. Windsor, more especially the Poquonock district, is well represented.
Rank. Names.
Gen1 Phinehas Lyman.
C'apt Giles Wolcott.
Lieut. Roger Enos.
Do. Silas Holcomb.
Ensign John Strong.
Do. Elihu Humphrey.
Serg' Major Sam" Granger.
Qr Sorgt James Harman.
Serg: "Joel Addams.
Do. .Joseph Marvin, enlisted March 24.
Do. Oliver Hanchet.
Do. Ephraim Addams.
Do. Shadrack Phelps.
Do. John Slaid.
Do. Phinchas Southwell.
Do. Eleazer Smith.
Reuben Denslow.
Do. Wm. Ross.
Do. Jonth Allyn.
Do. Philander Pinney.
I)). Thomas JJerrit, enlisted March 25. Do.
Do. Zaphany Snow, enlisted
Do. Jonth Braman, enlisted Do.
Clerk, Joab Griswold, enlisted March 21.
Do. Nath" Humphrey.
Doct How.
Do. Andrus.
Chap: Beckwith.
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Rank. Names
Corp' Abiether Evans, enlisted March 25.
Do. Dan. King.
Do. Ebenezer Phelps.
Do. Elisha Spencer.
Do. Stephen Holcomb.
Drumm' Ephraim Goodrich.
Do. Elijah Reed.
Sam" Marvin, deserted Sept. 22d.
Privates, Daniel Enos, enlisted April 1st. Nath" Griswold, enlisted March 24. Francis Griswold, enlisted Do. John Lewis, enlisted March 26, deserted Sept. 15th.
Timothy Soper, enlisted April 4th.
Abiether Iones, enlisted Do. 26.
David Jones, enlisted Do. 26.
Epraphras Wolcott, enlisted March 25.
Moses Fargo, enlisted Do
Jonath Bewell, enlisted . 16.
Sam" Blackmore, enlisted Do. 25.
Berijah Brunson, enlisted
Do. 25.
Elisha Pendal, enlisted March 25.
Roswell Davis.
Jonath" Brown, enlisted March 24.
Richard Fitch, enlisted March 25.
Simeon Allin.
Austin Phelps, enlisted March 24.
Benajah Webster, enlisted March 25.
Isaac Crowfoot, deserted Sept. 15.
Phinehas Huxley.
Joshua Preston.
Ebenezer Burbank.
Privates, Joseph Towner.
Stephen Bufe]kly, enlisted March 25.
Joseph Stoughton. David Allyn. Silas Simans.
Thos Newberry, enlisted March 25.
Jonth Gillett, enlisted May 1, died Oct. 3d.
Joseph Easton.
Thos. Austin.
David Allyn, Jr.
Moses Warner.
Reuben Phelps.
John Rimington. W'" Middleton.
Marshall Stanly. Elias Austin.
Hosca Brunson. John Alford, enlisted March 24. David Spencer. Ebenezer Halladay. Thaddeus Lyman. Brown Be[e]kwith.
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Rank. Names.
Privates. Enoch Granger. Thos. Williams, Jr. Dudley Hayse. Jesse Goddard. Jehiel Messenger.
Richard Andors.
Isaac Goff, died Sept. 18th.
Aaron Noble, enlisted April 4
Moses Holcomb, died Oct. Ith.
Shadrach Phelps, Jr.
Primus Hills .!
isaac Fosbery. John Williams. John Forward.
Joseph Hinksman.
Thos. Davis.
Abel Norton, died Aug. 27th.
Dan Pom[e]r[o]y. John Thomas, enlisted March 28th.
Joel Peck.
Timothy Wills. Wm. Cammel.
John Dewey. Benjamin Thrall.
Elijah Brunson.
John Thomas, enlisted March 28.
William Harrington, enlisted March 26. Not joined.
Thomas Parsons, enlisted May 21. Not joined.
GILES GIBBS (EIl.), aged 17, was drafted and died, north of Crown Point. of camp- distemper.
The French war was now virtually at an end. The balance of the year 1760 was occupied with a distressing and harassing war between the Southern Colonies and the Cherokees, which was finally brought to a successful close. The year 1761 was mostly spent in repairing and strengthening the numerous posts gained from the French, a work in which the provincials were much employed.
At the commencement of 1762, England found herself involved in war with the principal continental powers and the greatest part of the maritime power of Europe. The colonies were therefore required, as heretofore, to furnish men and arms for service, and in an expedition which was made against Martinique and the French posts in the West Indies, in the early part of 1762. a large number of colonial troops were employed.
Shortly after, war was declared against Spain, and a large fleet with some 15,000 or 16,000 troops was sent to attempt the reduction of llavana and the Spanish West Indies. A large number of provincials,
1 Probably the old colored Dr. Primus, afterwards of East Windsor.
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under their own officers, joined this undertaking. The greatest obsta- cles of nature and art, the terrors of pestilence, and the burning rays of a tropical sun, endured for two long months, had almost wasted and de- stroved this courageous and energetic army, when their drooping spirits were revived by the opportune arrival of a reinforcement from North America, and the 15th of Angust, the town, the shipping in the harbor. and a large extent of territory, were surrendered to the English com- mander. New England in this enterprise lost a large number of her sons. Slain in battle or swept off by the pestilence, but few ever re- turned to their homes.
THOMAS PARSONS ( Why.), aged about 26, died October, 1762, and was buried in Cuba.
JOHN EGGLESTONE (Why. ), aged 34, and ELIPHALET LOOMIS (Wby.) aged 32, died 1762, and were buried in the ocean coming from Havana.
REUBEN COOK (Why.), aged about 36, died at New York, De- cember, 1762, on his return from Havana.
Dr. ELIHU TUDOR (E. W.) was on the surgical staff.
Capt. ICHABOD WADSWORTH and ISAAC HUBBARD (Ell.) were in Putnam's regiment during this siege.
BENJ. PIERSON. son of Simeon (Ell. ), died at New York. November, 1762, on his return.
BENJ. PINNEY, son of Benjamin (Ell. ), died at New York. Novem- ber, 1762, on his return.
JOSEPH PINNEY, son of Joseph (Ell. ), died at Havana, November. 1762, on his return.
REUBEN STILES was in the expedition, and returned safe and sound.
Sudden and unforseen changes in European affairs soon after turned the seale of fortune in favor of England, and enabled her to treat for prace, without relinquishing a single advantage which she had gained in North America. Accordingly a definitive treaty of peace between Eng- land and France was entered into on the 10th of February, 1762. and the series of long and bloody FRENCH WARS was ended.
It may, perhaps, be thought by some that we have occupied more space with this subject than is appropriate in a local history. But, when we consider how devotedly the colonies sacrificed lives and means in the service of their king : when we remember how great a change the French wars produced in the character of New England society and manners : above all, when we reflect that they were pre-eminently THE SCHOOL in which God was drilling and disciplining the American Colonies for that greater struggle for their own independence, it does not seem that we have given it too prominent a place in our Windsor history. For. in the long Canadian campaigns, the colonial troops, fighting by the side of the
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disciplined masses of England's choicest soldiery, and under the eye of England's best generals, were silently learning their own deforts, and strengthening their own powers.
Nay, more : for as they measured their own success with the cum- bersome inefficiency of the regular troops, they gradually learned to rely ou themselves. And when in after years, they mot those same troops as foes, upon the battle grounds of American liberty, it was not with the fears of timid novices, but as practiced athletes, wrestling with those whose prowess and abilities they had already tested in former contests.
We append the names of some who served in the French wars, but of whose time or place of service we have not been able to find the exact data :
JOHN. son of Nathaniel and Ruth (Stiles) TAYLOR (E. W.). died Jannary 6, 1757.
BENONI STILES ( E. W. ) died in war, aged 24 years.
JOHN and HEZEKIAH BISSELL ( E. W. ) were in one or more call- paigns.
THOMAS (son of Roger) NEWBERRY of Windsor, at the age of 16. went to East Windsor to learn a trade, and there enlisted under Capt. Erastus Wolcott, with whom he served several years in Canada.
NATHANIEL OWEN was in one or more campaigns.
SOME (EAST ) WINDSOR WAR LETTERS.
Originals in possession of Mrs. Hannah (Grant) Collins, of Wapping, Connecticut : copied in February, 1873, by D. Williams Patterson :
I.
HARTFORD, March 29th, 1757.
then William Grant, Alexander Grant. Jonathan Bement. Zephaniah Snow, John Ripe neer, Alexander Woolcott Jun, & John MeCuen all which Iulisted Private Soldiers under Lt. Sam" Welles in the Company of Maj' Nathan Payson in his Majestyes Service for the next Campaigne on this day offered themselves to be mustered, and were accepted.
per JOSEPH PITKIN, Colloun
Win. Grant. Alexander Grant, Jonath" Bement, Zephanialı Snow and Alexander Wolcot Junr were Impressed by Capt. Grant y" 27th.
II.
CLOUFERECK [CLAVERACK ].
May the 2 1757 hauing an opertunyty to wryght to you though sone after our parting but not knoing when I shd. haue another chance to send to you Ithought I wold wright a fue Lins and this may Inform you that Iam got well into Clonfereck and am in good helth and fare consederabel well and I woll not haue you be two much consarnd about me we dont know when we shall go from this place Some are apt to think we shall tary hear a month we got into this place on the 29 day of Aprel and are stashind [stationed]
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out about 3 mits from the River. thes lines to all my frends that are in Windsor aspe- sheły to my father and Mother. these Lins ware writing by me in hast in one of the Duch barns wich is our place of Lodging.
WILLIAM GRANT
to Captain Thomas Grant at Windsor
111.
WINDSOR May 6th, 1757.
LOUING BROTHER We Received your Letter May 5th & are Not a Little Rejoiced to Hear yt you are Jn Heath and fare So well and Through the Goodness of God we at Present are all Well - & J hope we May See Each other again in the world, but Jf God in his Pronidance Hath Decread y' we Shold not J hope we shall have a joiful Meeting at the Right hand of him that gave us our Beings. at Present J have nothing strange to Wright to you J Know of no Parson Sick amongt ns. Father and Mother Bare with your absene Better than J Expected I wold Not have you fail of Wrighting Euery oppertunity. Pleas to Desend as far into Perticklers as you can. So J Remain your Most Affectionate Brother
S. ROCKWELL GRANT
P. S. My Respects to My Frinds -
J Dont Know but J May after a while Come and See you. J wold have you wright what you Stand in Most Nead of yt J Can Suply you with.
R. G.
To Mr. William Grant at Clawverick Belonging to Major Pa[y ]sons Company of Connecticut with Care.
IV.
CLOUERECK May the 10, 1757. after my Duty to my father and Mother I wold Inform them and all my frends that I am well and in good helth, and so I hope these Lins will find you all. We are in expectacon of Marching from this place in a short time to AAlbiny. our fare is not so good as when at hom but it is as good as I did expect it would be and for the most part I am contented with my condishun. We have no preching on the Sabeth but the Comishen ofisers Do ("ary on, and eury night and Morning thay pray with us and for the Most part Sing a psalm in the Euening. I have nothing Strange to right to you but only that Lord Leueston [Livingston] with a party of men bane had a batal with another party that Leve five] upon his Land and he kild two of them and thay wounded 5 or 6 of Lenistons party. one of the Men that was kiled was Danel prat, he was shot into the brest if you have any opertunity to let me hear from you i should be glad you wold and i do beleve you may by Leftenent Wells that i do expect will cary this Leter to hartford.
We have orders to March from this place on the 11 day of May to a place a Letel aboue Allbiny and below the half- moon and i do Supose from there to the forts. 1 should be glad you wold pay to Aleksander Allian what Is due to him and tack cear [take care] of my thing[s] as well as you can.
WILLIAM GRANT.
Captain Thomas Grant at East Windsor in Conecteent.
to
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V.
1757. WINDSOR, May 14th 1757
Yours J Reed One bearing Date May 24, the other 10th Jn which I have the joyful News of your Helth. Through the Goodness Of God we are at Present So - at Pres- ent J have Nothing strange
Thomas Grant at East Windsor in Connectecut plese to Deliner with Cear and Spead
VI.
WINDSOR June 20 1757. - LOUING BRTHER Yours we Red Dated May 224 - wharein we have the Plesiour to Hear yt you are In Helth. So These Lines all of us Through the Goodness of God nothing very Remarcable Except a Destresing Drouth & three Men at Hartford Died very Sudantly two of them ware drounded one of which was sculing, the ore Slipt over the Pin which Cased him to fall over, his Name we Lost Det Langerell ventered on to Save his Lyfe ware Both Drounded. a Nother Man the same Instant Dropt Down Dead his Name was Ensign - Plese to Wright all opertuni- tys So J Remain Your Most
Afectinate Brother
ROCKWELL GRANT
P S. we have had no opertunety to send yon any Dollars J Beleive y' J shall Come and see you some Time this Sumer Jf you are stationed at the fauls. Plese to Rite what you no Concerning the small pox. we herd a filing (? flying) Report, as though it was in the army &c
Mr. To
Wiliam Grant at fort Edward Belonging to Major Pason Compeny of Connecticut.
VII.
FORT EDWARD July the first 1737. LOUING VNCLE I Recued your leter Dated June the IS on this very Day the 1 of July wich Jnformed me of you and your famely and of my fathers famely being in good helth as usuol wich I greatly Rejoys to hear and hope it may be Continued to you and through the Wonderful goodness of God I am at present well in helth as euer I was in my Life a marcy grate Jndead wich I Desier we may be all thanfull for as we shold be and mack a good Improvement of that and all other mareys that we are Daly made the Subicts of it is a very helthy time in the Camp Comsedering the number of peple being upwards of Five thousand men incampt together. generel web is latly ariued from Albeny to Fort Edward, and a consederable Artilery of brase Canon what the Desine is I am not able to tell many hands are dayle Imploid a bulding the fort and mucking a nnw Intrentment at a Desentes a fue Rods from the other. no moor men kild. or tacking by the Indyns then I supose yon haue heard of as 5 kild and tackin at one time and 4 kild and 3 tacking at another time; one kild one wounded at another time. Scouts are ofen sent out, one of about 30 men is out at present and Capt. Putman is out with a party is expected in sofo]ne. two Cap- tives haue ben tacking one by Capt. Putman and one by the Mohocks, and on the 28 day of June thare was 13 french men came into the Camp and Resind themselfs up and was thought to be some that came from Cand[a]y or Crown pint wich made us to Rejoys a litel while but sone found out thay ware Some Deserted from New York of the
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Nutrels wich mad it seme not so good nuws. I hatte ben out one Scout my Self up to fort An[n] whar was to be sene the worck of our fore fathers wich was plesing to me. From Fort an[n] we went to the Clear Reuer, and from thar we went to the East bay and from the East bay to the south bay and from there we Returned home to the fort and mad some Descouery of Indyins shot at some and some plunder. Nothing moor att Present So I Remain your Harty well wisher and Loving Cousin
WILLIAM GRANT.
Plese to give my Suteble Regards to all my Frinds in Pertiekler to my father and mother brethren and sister and if you or they shold haue any opertunity to wright to me I shold be exeding glad you wold Improve the same and if brother Rockwell should come up as he toll of in the last I Recued Dated may the 6, 1 shold be glad he wold bring up some Chese and drid apel and a letel tee and some mony, but I wold not haue them be two much Consarned about me so as to put your self to troble in coming for as long as I am well I hope I shall not sufer but in case he should come thes things wold sut very well
This Leter I trust will get to you being put in the Cear of Sarg' Gil[e]s Wolcot.
Docter To. Mathew Rockwell at East Windsor in Connectecut plese to Deleuer with Cear and spead.
VIII
WINDSOR July 4th 1757
LOUING BROTHER. After Dew Regard to you J wold Inform you yt. Thees Lines Through the Good- ness of the Eternal God Leave us in Helth as J Hope thay may find you - Though we are separated at a Grater Distance than Euer we ware before yet J hope Jn God's time we may Behold Each others fases with harts filed with Thankfulness But Jf god llas other ways Determined yet Either of us must Jncounter with Grim Deth J Hope yt it May be our llappy portion whilst our Bodys are Moldring into Dust our unspoted sols May Sore abone The Starry Sky & Rest in the Louvng arms of God yt Gave us ouer Beings there to La his Everlasting Praises throughout the Neverending Ages of a Long and Enles Eturnity yt this May be our Portion is the Constant Prayer of your Most Loving Brother.
ROCKWELL GRANT.
P. S. Lord Loudon Saikl from york 10 or 12 days agon with about 120 sail it is (redbaly Reported that yt the fleet is at Hallifax. - Things upon the farm Look Mid- iing well. Ry wheet Indian Corn we hane Brok up about 5 acres? Your old mair has gut a snoty Mare Colt Dibel ox ant [aint] Like to shed his Coat Much before the Foll -
My Respects to all My friends Espesuly those from Windsor. Tel them J sbold be Glad to Se them at Days to Drink a litle Chery with them
S. R. G.
To William Grant at fort Edward in Major Pasons Company of Conecticut.
CAMP AT FORT EDWARD Au' 234 1757.
DR SERT. GRANT
I have Rec'd yours wharein yon Inform me you are very Sick at Green Bush; why Did you go over that Side; I have apply'd to Gente Webb, his order is that you go
P
SOME FRENCH WAR SOLDIERS' LETTERS.
Immediately into the Hospital in albany whare you will be very well look'd after and all those that belongs to Connecticutt Regiment
I hope you will soon Recover
This from your Officer
N. PAYSON.
To
x
SHEFFEALD June 14th ad 1758
SIR after my Regards to I would Juforme you that J am in good Ilelthe and hope that these Lines will find you so tow, and all the Rest of oure Company are well and J hope that we shall See Canaday before that J com home and plese to give my Regards to all our friends and J would not haue not fale of Righting to me and J will do the same to and plese to give my Comp to mis E. G. and to all Rerest of the lameley and so J Remain youres to Sary and sofrth
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